Alison Halliday1, Jeroen J Bax2. 1. President of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Level 6 John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Electronic address: alisonhalliday@aol.com. 2. President of the European Society of Cardiology, Department Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.